The Sun. — London, England, 1809-09-28 00:00:00

134D1it 'HOUSE. Yesterday a Quarterly General Court was held. , at the. East India House; which was respeotattl') , s at tended. After the usual ,• • , The CHAIRMAN (Mr. GRANT) . submtiteot a nese-. Julien of the Ceurt of Directors,, re - aPPcri n ' i 'g T. Locke, one of Cadets on the Madras Esta-. blishment, who had been dismissed i .neconsequcnce Of hating Corrukttly obtained his at pointment in the st-ivice. - He then moved, That the said Resolution be Coal!Med,'Under .the condition that. he be colisi ileied as h iviticr entered the service 4enovo i Which , assed unanimously., Mr. LowNDES expressed his boix that the .East. , India Company'', as a Corporate i Body, w , iuldnot pass (liter the .fiftieth year of . Lis Maje:sry s reign, Witt out Paying:the due complime,nts to . a Monarch Whose eublie. patriotism and .private 'Virtues so justly rendered bun estimable to all ranks ot his iubjea. The CH AttimAtv perfeElly .concurred, with the sentiment, of lo)alty . and ROM' . Proprietor in every affetilOn 'to the So% ereign, which he had uttered; ! b ut lea‘e to observe,, that the subjett had °t passed without due t considerafion flout the Di reClois, ho ha.t Leen of opinion, that, the best mode of forwarding the object in view, would be to con cur with other Corporate .a general testi )onial of resped and loyalty. Any new distinct MeasUre might r lier4ore, tend to counteract the grand abject in cone , inplatien. . . Mr. LAYTON f ir o t es s,-4 iii itself p e rfrafe satisfied With the ideas ftb Executive .t ody. fer a tew • , werus in expla,,ation L 0, ,, NOES, ' Mr. HER Rill TT, i;klYerliOg 10 the coniplaints which ha i ti . e.(lliiiicie in a 1 . 1 - !ilc•r General COurt,. asked whet her any inftirinition had beetvreceived by the ot;rt of areaturs relative to the prolectiou ot the comineice,.in the. Inttian, seas? C HA/RNAN expressed his ebligations to the Proprie,or f r calling the attention of the Court to the . After whit had passed at a pLeced 7 .t -mg Court, it irecame, perhaps, the dry ot Chair to take forthei-notice of. the subject. At 04, 'time the Court were totally uninformed. They pos, sess-sd no documents, and otilv one side of the ques tion was heard -3 matter to be regret , ed i where the c'haraders of public and profession I men were con certed. The subject, had !of iK'Un brought under the cognizance the Directors b, e tier p ar ty ; but the complaints h virr4 orige att-cl in tile General it was but fair it sttould hear the defence a 1 ilucutnet, is had been received since the ques titer. 'r as agitat e d, the tit)sTance of_ which was as follows, viz. ttiat . Sir E. Tellew,, previous to his knowledge Of. MeMorial against him tram the , Met:coants -to ths- Lords of the Admiralty, st its d io the, Bett;al Government ) that he had always, been ot opinion, the only effectual protec tiuit tif the trade-was the establishment of regular colt s ; that he hat early stated this to the Bengal i'lerChants, and offered to make an arrangement for regutar, t onvoys, but they preferred, for the sake of an early market, to run as single ships; atid, tor the same rea'Qu, when under convoy, broke from their convoy ; That in the months of August, Sep tember, October, and November, 1807, when the Bengal M rchartts state that their trade was lett wholly w tlp,ut defence, Ind many ot iris M,jesty's ship, lying idle in Madras Roads, there were fifteen sail in different parts of the Bay for the protection of the trade, besides other snips continually intersect ing the Bay ; More, from repaii• and necessary ser vices, could not be: afforded, that the Beligal, Go tiernment, in then - letter 'to the Court of Direc tors, express their entire conviction that every at tention has seen paid by Sir Edward P !Lew to the protection of the Bay of' Bengal agilitist the enealY l 4 cruizers, consistent With a due attention to the exi gencies of the public serf - ice; that die Mein , vial .against the conduct of Sir Edward Pellew by the Bengal .Merchants Was forwarded to those Of Bern . bay tor signature:, and There unanimously rejected ; that the Buinbay Merchants solicited and invariably teceited regular convoy fur their 'trade, and the only inst "nce of capture wnich (courted was when ships had deserted _convoy; that had the Bengal Mer chants acc t . their scheme of protection, accepted a similar property would have been equally secured--a scheme • which, however, they had finally adopted. The Chairman then represented, that the Bombay Con sultai ion of that period had nut been received, but he had seen Resolutions of the Merchants of Bom bay, with an Address to Sir Edward Pellew, dated the 19. h of May, 1808, with about 80 signatures, illustrating, in the strongest manner, the anxious attention of Sir. Edward to the security of the trade, and the complete success of the measures adopted by Mtn; al : 4) that Sir Eduard Petlew first suggested the system of regular convoys, the immediate effeet of which was a decrease of 50 per cent. on pre miums of insurance. The Chairman concluded with producing a letter addressed to him front Mr. Parry, the late Chairman, stating, that he, as well as other •Ploprietors, when the subject was intro duced into the General Court, was forcibly impress ed with an opinion that blame must be imputable somewhere, and had expressed himself to that et feet but his information of various official docu ments hating bet.n received since lie left the Chair, had changed his opiniqu, and made him regret that only one side of the question had been heard in the General Court; he therefore requests that the Chairman will take a convenient opportunity of re portieg his seniirn tits to the'Proprietors . l and at the same tune corrett a Report of his Speech in, the Newspapersat the General Court t:ttore mentioned, wherein he - is stated to have asserted, in addition to some observations on the general subject,. that the Naval Commander in Chief was recalled. If . he -rased any words that could warrant or countenance such a statement in the Report, it was matter of ad ditional regret to him, feeling, as he does, how much if is due to public men that their character should be subject to no unfounded imputation ; but assur edly he could mean no more- than that Sir Edward Pellew was, in the usual rotation oldointnand, on . the way home; for no information had been receiv ed that he was recalled, and he had since learnt that the fact was directly otherwise ; that he had himself. some time' before, applied for leave to return, on account of his health, and that, atter some delay, this pe mission was given him, ou the ground of his own request, . Mr. HuttoTT returned his acknowledgrnents for an explanation wiiich afforded him.great-satisfaction. Ott ttie•quethou being - put, the Court adjourned. POLfelt • - OLTILDBALL, SEPT. 27,7—Mrs. EliZateth Howe Pugh, acid Thomas Pugh, were brought up on charge, that they did wantonly and tnalicion4; un the night of the 24th August last, expo,e, leave, and abandon a female child, in a court which leads from. Dyer's-buildings to Castle-street, Holborn. -*The Overseers and Church wardens of the Parish of St.-Andrew, Holborn, were the Prosecutors. Ann Taylor, who nursed the child, stated, that, about 18 months ago,. Mrs. 'Pugh brought her a *male infant to nurse, which appeared to have-been only a few hourS moan. She told her the parents were persons of consequence, and agreed to pay her 30s. a month. In about eight months afterwards, Mrs. Pugh complained of the sum being too-much, and the witne,s agreed to take 245. a-month and four months ago reduced it to one guinea, sooner than part with the child, 'which she had got attach- ed los; to use the witness's own language, it " was the sweetest babe she had 'ever laid her ryes on, and .she, loved it as if it had been her own." The witness burst into tears, indeed she appeared affected throughout, and - her feelings wouldThave done ho nour to the real parent ; every person in Court sym pathized with her. In continaation.of her evidence, she said, on Sunday evening, the .20th of. August, Mrs. Pugh, accompanied by a Lady and Gentleman, came to herliouse ; the child was not dressed, but her clean clothes' were on a chair airing. Mrs. Pugh said to the witness, " Have I caught you at List ?" 'who replied, " she had not caught much,•as the child's clothes were' ready, and it would not take a minute to dress her." Mrs. Pugh desired her to make haste and do it, as she was come to take the child away. On the Witness remonstrating, and.expressit4her regret, she looked at the strange Lady, to implore her interference. Mrs. Pugh im mediately said, that was not the mother; but, put- ting hei h:lnd .11 -the- Gentleman, said„, this is one who. has more -interest in the welfare of the child than-1 4 I . .a . vd; and he tll have her away;' this made the , winless.suppose he was the father, .and she begged et, hint to tle kind to the child. • He told her. there was no. danger of that, and kissed it several tines i they took it away with them, and left the witness in tears. The• Beadle of the Parish proved the child's being found at ten o'clock, on Thursday, the 241 b of August. Mary Taylor, the sister of the first.witness,. stat ed, - that .she was servant to a Lady in Holborn, and having heard there was a .child found, and • that it was ,taken to the Workhouse,. and. the .description given answering that of. her silt hr's child, .for they always called her so, she went - to the.'Workhouse, , and found her surmise to.be right ; she into! ined.het sister, who made known. to the otticets ot parish the circumstances' She had that day .stated.. • The Prisoners were examined separately-; Mrs. • Pugh was the first. Shestated i the motner or the• child was a young lady of respectal,iiiiy ;• the Other she knew nothing ot, never having seen him ; but the Lady and Gentleman who were with her on the : - night the child was taken away were not the pa rews—the Lady's name was Daily, and the Gentle man's Rutiedgel he was Clerk to a Corntactor, and they both lived in Lawrence-lane. She then admitted what had been stated by Ann Taylor, an added, .that_she had received letters from the uttitd's mother, desiring that it might be taken from the nurse and put into the Workhouse ; she produced several letteri, which she stated to be from the mo ther, to - that effect. - Toe Worthy Alderman (ScuoLEY) objected to the letters being read ; he said, he was applied - to for a private examination in this case, but that was what he never would submit to ; still there was some delicacy due to the family and copnections of this young Lady, who, he was_ informed,. from a source he could not doubt, were truly_respectable ; and another Consideration was, that her father and the child's grandfather was on his death-bed, and could not survive many hours, and it was but hu manity to save. him this heart-rending pang in his• last moments ; particularly so, as the disclosure of the name, at present, could not benefit the case. Mrs. Pugh then continued, and stated, that the other. Prisoner was her father-in-law her husband was dead; on the Sunday night she took the child from Ann Taylor, she left it with another nurse un til the Thursday evening following, when she •agaio • removed it, for the purpose of having it put into a workhouse, the other Prisoner having undertaken to get it into one, for which she paid hint fol. ; they took a coacla to Holborn, where she.delivered the child to ,her father-in-law, and went home;- he at • ter wards told her he had left the child in St. An— drew's watch-house. • Thomas Pugh, an old, infirm man, was next exa mined : he acknowledged Mrs. Pugh was his daugh- - ter-in-law, but denied his having received any mo ney from her ; and stated, he-was with her when she laid down the child its the court, and they ran away; but she got out first, being the must. active; he did not know who were the parents of the , child. The worthy Magistrate fully committed them both for trial. Mr. Griffiths, .the Common CounCilman, stated, he was well acquainted' with the family of the mo ther of the child, and they were most respectable people; the young Lady herself had been considered most amiable until this disclosure.. Her pregnancy was never suspected. It was stated a short time since, that persons were - 1 taken into custody who were the real fabricators of some hundreds of forged ii.,Bank of England notes. Twolof them, John Sly, and a woman of the mime of Flamson, have been twice examined at Marlho;. rough-street Police-Otlice, and on Tuesday they were fully committed for trial. The male Priso►►er is the same who, two years ago, was sentenced to six monthg imprisonment, for forging theatrical be nefit tickets on Mr. DeCamp and others. The wo - man prisoner cohabited with Sly, and they were taken _into custody in Shoreditch; and plates for the fabricating of notes, were found in their apartl ments. Zhomus Humphries' and George Builket; Bishop, notorious Ihouse'.4reakers, were yesterday fully committed for trial for breaking into the 'tains?. Stockdale, the •bOoksellef, in:Ficca.iilly, with intent to steal. The Prisoners, by their particular Manner Of linkickit'igithdit r ieet door of the•l 3 rosecu 7 tor's'liouse, attraerthrthLibute of at endeilian N-YLO pa3sing, and he alarmed Mr. Stockdale. They % F t J surrounded withopt, and some persons entered, when the.thieves, on being alarmed, escaped quf:of the first boor win:lows, but they were inigiediately tal, en and conveyei to St. Jarlieswatch douse. The Prisoners had taken up the carpets. •• tiv,N-HALL. 7 — Elizobeik'Pollard, the young Woman who has been twice before examined, was yesterday brought op a:third time by Goff. It ap pears site has been practising depredations on the public for upwards of four months, to an extent un equalled by anyot her predecessors in this species of imposition. More than twenty new charges were yesterday brought forward. against her; and it ap peared from the different statements of the persons appearing, that the mode by which she obtained ad mission into their houses was similar to those al reAdy laid before the public, namely, by going to the house when Ale knew. the family were out; and representing herself to the servants as a relation of the master. or mistress. Owing to the -number of charges which have already ... been brought against her, the Magistrates thought proper to remand her for a future examination: Many persons have re covered their property, and several articles not yet claimed, which were found at 'different Pawn brokers, where they had been pledged by the Pri soner, are in possession of Goff, the' Officer. . Mra. CLARKE attended 'with 'her bail at Hicks'S Hall yesterday, and pleaded . Not Guilty to the In diament of .Mr; WAR/MR.—As soon as it was known that Mrs. CLARICE was in Court, a great crowd of people assembled on the outside, and ou her going away, after ghe got into the coach, loudly huzza'd, and cried olit - , -e? Success to Mrs. Clarke " IVO Otirdier-:--" . Nd POthicatimpostor Had Mrs. CLARKE delayed to put in her bail till afte'r the Sessions, she rriight have avoided -taking, her trial until the Sessions after the next-; but' by thus ptoinptly coming forward, she pledges herself to- meet the charge at . the Inext . Sessions, we understand glories in the opportunity. it will afford her of exposing, -. still - further, the unprinCipled conduti of her already disgraced .accuser. The! WRIGHTS have also-put in-ball.„ and pleaded for Ow same reason. • A more wanton as Of barbarity we bever'remem: 1 ber to have heard - of, than that which''vas committed 011 SatutdaY last Mr. of Brighton,' in Northainp tonshire, having consigned ,the management 01 • Ins larin to his nephew, a - young man'of an irritable dit 7 po,rtion, lie quarrelled with one of the plougii4ifiy, whom he tied to the tail• of a cart, acrd flogged un=, mercifully. The - lad remonstrating against the treat= t6ent he had received, brought upon hiM farther and" mole severe punishment. His in(iu »an masternext I-Awned' him to . the tad of •one of the cart - horses, • then giving the :animal a Cut with his Whip; he spreng to, ward, and finding an incumbrance behind, kicked to get rid . of it, and hitting the poor boy - in ' the stomach; he, immediately expired. • The body was taken to a public-hotise in the neighbourhood, for a Coroner's InqUest to be taken upon it. The larnier,was intmediately arrested, - and conveyed to Norihampton gaol. . , SPANISHIIMPOSTS.—It was mentioned in our Pa per of Tuesday that certain . dUties, called Alcabalas, Censos at'id_Millones were suppressed by. a decree of theJUnta; &ited the Ist instant. We believe that the nature of theSe imposts is .not generally under stood. The Alcabala. is a tribute or royal duty which is paid upon every article sold, in the form of a per centage, accordint : oo the value of the commo dity. This per centage is varied, but all the laws and ordinances respeCting it, to remove ambiguity and to prevent exactions, are collected in a book call ed the Alcabalutorio. There is a Spanish proverb which stifficieinly chews the unpopularity of this form of taxation—Quien descubre la Alcabala ese pap. " Whoever informs of the Alcabala should pay Recopilacion de los hues the supe rior Clergy and Judges are exempted from it. . The Ceuso, which has been improperly called Ciensos and Ciensas, in the 'newspapers, is a rate colleted on the rents of houses and estates. The Millones is an aid that_the kingdom granted to the Sovereign on the consumption of six articles of domestic use, wine, vinegar, oil, butcher's meat, soap,'and tallow candles. Among the accuaiodations at Court, in the Council of Finances, there N an apartment called the Sala de Millones. In this room or hall the affairs relaiing,to this due to the King are transatied, as Well 'as some others regarding the x on, tobacco, cocoa, .aud 2 few other- commodities. The persons appointed to supetititeod this business consist of some Members of the Council of Finances, and several deputies nominated by, such of .the cities of Spain as have authority onfsote for represeanatives (Procuradores) in the CorteS. . • By a late-decision in. the Court of King's Bench,. which confirms a. former one given by Sir W. Sco',FT,. it is now,colifiroted that a bastard.is within die pro visions of the Marriage Act, and can only be legally married by banns for want of a father, who, in the contemplation of the law, is capable of giving con sent to such a person being married by license. Tois has been settled by a decision of me Court of King's Bench, in which threeJ Ages agreed to this doctrine, and one only, Mr. Justice CsitosE, dissented, • On Monday afternoon, about seven O'clock, as two Northampton waggons were passing the Chapel at Highgate, try •some accident one of the drivers fell; and the wheel of .his own waggon going over his head, killed him on the spot. The Coroner's In questwas to sit upon .the body yesterday, at twelve o'clock. It is understood, that both waggons lett London at the same hour, and that a cothpetitidn, as to speed, took plate,, as both were seen at Hol loway, with the horses in a swing trot. On the 9th instant, two boys, amusing themselves by sailing near the,point of the new quay,' Dundee, were suddenly immersed in the water by the oter- Riming of their boat. The current, which at that place•is very rapid:, was quickly fitietting them away, when HEINRICH- PAYEKEN, a native of Bremen, on board the P/twnix, a foreign vessel lyingin the har bour, instantly stripped oft his clothes, and plung ing into the river, brought them safe ashore. Hav ing thus saved'theirlives, he . deliberately: swam into the river for their hatS, and restored them to their delighted owners. A subscription has since been opened in the Exchange Cotlec-ioom, and' a sum of - TiUlaineirao purchase a hand wale wateh, . . .• with an tion, appropriate:mscription, to'revi.ard the young • than for his kallant and humanecvndat: , . • • . CH. SI:1111ClEk. ASSIZES, ./11.'G, %), Befoce t:ze 11:0n. Sir RODEII r DALLAS, arz' a • Special Jury. PAYMENT OF OLD DEBTS. NICHOLLS 2'. WARD. The Attorney-General, Mr. MAN LEY, opened this case. It was, he stated, an issue out of the Court of Chancety, dire&ed by the Lord Chancellor, for the purpose of ascertaining whether three bonds for very considerable sums of money, which h;id: been giVen by the late Sir George Wynne, had ev,,e hden paid to the party of whom the Plaintiff was the representative. The bonds in question ‘ver:.! dated as long back as the year Mg. It therefore wnuld naturally be asked tO - -Avila the delay in endeavour ing to obtain payment of,them, was attributable ? The fads were these :—Sir George Wynne was a Gentleman wuo made a very conspicuous figure in life, some time after the commencement of the last century. He was not, it was true, eminent as a Statesman, or as a member of any of the learned professions; but: he acquired immense wealth by the discovery of a.valuahle lead mine upon one of his estates, This mine was so produEtive, that, in the language of une of the witnesses, the money from 7; it cause in by horse . loads. Unfortunately for .Sir George, produeive as it was, it was not equal to his extravagance ; his .p!aces of residence, in town .end country, were the mansions of splendour and gene ral hospitality; Princes. and Noblemen.were his com panions at the table, and he lived altogether as if he thought his mine of leadwas a mine of gold, which would never be exhausted. In this he was mis- taken the mine soddeoly wiled, taut .Sir George continued his style •of living, and his hasits of ~ex pence, long after the, source. which Supplied then% , had been drained. He became embarrassed, an.l borrowed money .wherever he could . on mnrtgage, bond, and personal securities. At. length executions seized his propiply,; ..hislionses and rich furniture.; were taken possession of by his creditors ; he was obliged to ref ire. to, the ,Isle of M . an. lie afterwar4 came to Lolutony and sought .refuge the limits of the linar.clxs Gree4Lcluth; but. finally, .he wits arrcsted, and thro 7 .% tOnlo t e King's Bench, w.nere ,continued.till wain a yeek ; o( his.death, when : his crvditors finding itiere were, no hopes of their being .paid, or of his :hying much.longer, con- ; sented.tn reh.ase him. . Sir, Genrge, soon after-his. -enlargement, died at the louse: ot. : bis Among a valiely of securities, he kat' given the three &ands, ,with reference to which . .the, present issue w as direaed: I\;( ). 'N,, though the presqniptinn,of arising from thejapseoltime,.was, that : those bonds. : were satisfied, yet, it a sufficient, reason could. be shewn for•the party not having demanded payment of them, _that would : repel. the presumption ot, went, and entitle tire present holder of the securi, ties to demand.and xeceice satisfaction for them. The reason helad to,shew was the state of poverty in which Sir George.had continuedlduring the iawp . part of his lite, and, indeed, nearly trout the time the- bonds were given. it would have, be en of n'o . nse IQ have attempted to enforce them, because be was, t.Q all appearance, utterly insolvent. After his death, some of his estates, respeding which law-suits had been long,depending, turned out to be adequate.to the payment.of his dehts4 but till those which wero due on mortgages were discharged, the bond creditors could not. claim. The mortgages had , all. of them been recently paid, and now the representative of the bond creditors insisted on their right to havethe bonds settled, and the Plaintiff as one of them. The Learned Counsel said, he should shew that these bonds never could : have been paid, and he should then be entitled to a verdid. . The bonds were them put in and read ; after which, in' order to shew tl distress to which Sir George had been reduced, tittle was examined an old woman of the age of fourscore and ten, who had been at the sale, of his effeas when Ow werq, taken in execution by the bailiffs; she brought with her a large pewter platter, about the size of an ordi nary round table, which she had bought at the sale, soon after her marriage, and entering upon. house 7 keeping; it had .Sr George's crest, a dolphin, embossed on it, and she. seemed_ to ...consider it ,as a great treasure; she said they took every thing clesn out of the house, and then .Sir George left the country, and went to the Isle of Man. The other circumstances stated by the Attorney• General were . tullY - proved. Mr. OLBADZ, who appeared for the.first time on this CirCuit, made an ache speech, on the part of the ' D,Aendant". He contended, that to.repel the presdination of law, there must be positive proof the bonds had never been : paid. There had been periods when Sir George tii . ight have paid them.— His . friends might have paid them. And he con -sidered, that it the Plaintiff had not been satisfied they had' been paid, he would have had resource to measures for their_ recovery, at a much earlier period. Sir RoArttur DALLAS complimented the Learned Counsel on the in&enuity of his reasoning but he was 01 opinion, that the Plaintiff had sufficiently ac- Counted for the suit not having been betoie institut ed ; by sheaving that the pectunay embarrassments of Sir Gorge, in his life-ticnc, and the involved state-Ot his property atter his death, would have ten dered it lruitiess and unavaillible. . - The Ju ry were al,O Opinion, that the bonds nad never been paid, and 110:y accordingly bound a ter did for the Atin4fil_ • . A distressing event happened in America about two . months ago. At South% ich, in Savannah, were drowned-four young ladies, three of them from I 5 to 16, and one 17 years old. They. had assembled near a.pond for the purpose of' picking eherries, but finding them scarce, entered into a boat with a view to collect pond lilies; by sotr.e crieans they overset the boat, and before assistance could b.--• afforded, they •all perished. Their bodies the next day, in tie; ar•tte coffins, were laid side by side in the same grave. . . . Hit ohe apd have 'em all is.completely verified in the present State.. I,ctiery ; for; it the .purchaser of four Tickets of: the fi2 me number. should .he lucky enough to hit one 20,0001. he will takefour. • Tue Public, however, seem detc.rtnin.ed...l.llat,.thry.tihall buy them quickly or not Et t all ; for, by the reset clematid r there will not ba more than oue Ticket of any nu.tubtly left iu a short time. S